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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(1):242-243; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl259
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Letters to the Editor

Improving malaria mortality estimates for rural Africa by adding further studies

Robert Peter Ndugwa*, Olaf MüLler, Bocar Kouyaté, Heiko Becher and Heribert Ramroth

Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, 1m Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

* Corresponding author. Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: robert.ndugwa@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

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In recent years, a lot of efforts have been invested in providing estimations for the malaria burden in Africa and the rest of the world. The results available so far on the number of deaths due to malaria have helped to highlight the graveness of malaria, and budgetary support towards malaria research and interventions is continuously increasing. However, the precision of these estimates still needs improvement since there are a number of known limitations involved in the estimation procedures. Among these are a very incomplete coverage of the population at . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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